Perry Pick in Fla. Thinks Gay Marriage Causes Tornadoes and Such

We're pretty sure, ourselves, that gay marriage only causes gay people to be married.

Rick Perry is putting together his leadership team for the “Presidency 5” straw poll in Florida this October and for his co-chairperson he’s picked Pam Olsen. Mother Jones notes that Olsen is the founder of the Tallahassee House of Prayer, a leading anti-abortion activist and someone who believes that gay marriage is the cause of natural disasters. Here’s a quote by Pam:

“God is shaking. If anybody looks at the news and has just seen what's been happening recently with the floods, the fires, the tornadoes, God is shaking. Yeah, I think you have God shaking, sure you have the Enemy shaking, you have both and I don't want to say ‘Oh, that's the judgment of God or that's the Enemy’ … But the reality is God is judging us, and I think it's going to get worse.”

You know, you find yourself wanting to point out that the earth saw its fair share of fires and floods before anyone even heard of gay marriage. As MJ’s Tim Murphy says, “It's somewhat unclear why Texas, whose governor supports criminalizing gay sex, would be punished with raging wildfires for having too high a tolerance for gay rights”—but then you realize that you’re treating what they’re saying as though it’s worthy of consideration and you just feel stupid for getting suckered in.

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Now if you use their ?logic?, since most convicted serial killers drank milk as children, then drinking milk as a child will make you a serial killer. Therefore, the drinking of milk, all milk, must be immediately banned in all states. This makes just about as much sense, as their argument about "gay" or happy marriages causing tornadoes. I mean, my wife and I have been gaily married for 44 years, have 3 kids, and I don't think we have caused any tornadoes. If they mean homosexual marriages, then that is what they should call them, and then they would still be wrong, but they would have used the correct name.
As near as I know, the only thing that most marriages lead to is a loving relationship, and sometimes divorce.